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The Health Benefits of Weight Lifting and other Forms of Exercise

Everyone knows that weightlifting can help you build strong muscles and running can build endurance. If you’re an athlete, it’s no secret that regular focused workouts can improve your performance on the field and give you the edge you need to stay ahead of your competition.

It’s also no secret that a sustained program of intense exercise can help us look better by trimming away excess fat and toning and tightening up flab. But exercise can offer an astonishing range of additional benefits that each of us should bear in mind as we try to stay healthy and happy and face the challenges of the day.

1. Exercise can improve mental function. This has long been suggested by practical wisdom, but new university studies are proving more conclusively than ever that a link exists between regular exercise and sharp thinking. Working out can help us stay focused, it can improve memory and concentration, and it may also be able to ward off some of the common mental problems associated with aging.
2. Exercise can make us happier. Exertion can release endorphins that can block pain and inflammation and increase our general sense of wellbeing. But the mind and the body are connected on multiple levels. Strength and health can build confidence that can bring all kinds of good things into our lives. Looking better, feeling stronger, and aging slowly can lead to forms of happiness that have nothing to do with endorphin levels.
3. Exercise can help us fight disease. Studies show a wide range of illnesses that appear at lower levels among populations who exercise. Bone, lung, brain, and even dental health are often better among those who work out regularly than those who don’t.

Weightlifting Myths for Women

We’ve all seen the muscle bound ladies – professional weightlifters – who look as if they could break you in half without too much effort.  For many women, this is not exactly the look of which they are striving. Most women want to gain a little bit of muscle mass, get stronger, and in turn, burn more calories and stay fit thanks to the addition of a weightlifting regimen.  So let’s take a look at two of the most prevalent myths that are associated with ladies weightlifting and let’s debunk them, shall we?

Women will gain too much muscle mass – A popular conception is that women lifters will gain more muscle mass – they will bulk up – and look less feminine then, let’s say, their cardiovascular counterparts.  This just isn’t the case, though, ladies.  Women, unlike men, don’t have large reserves of testosterone, which is the important component produced in the body that allows for men to bulk up and get ripped.  In women, the stores of testosterone are naturally low and thus – even with an intensive training program that pushes you past the light weights you’ve been working with – you won’t see marked increases in muscle mass.  This will allow you to further tone the body and allow you to burn more calories, even when at rest and not working out.

Women can’t gain any muscle mass – Now, let’s look at the other side of the equation.  Have you seen the ladies Gripad uses to promote their workout gloves?  If you have, you know this quite simply is not the case.  They are toned, muscular while still retaining the feminine form, and truly, truly fit.  It is this image that can be both attainable and something to help measure yourself off of.  It takes hard work, but that’s half the fun – Pushing yourself to that limit, be it through cardio, weight training, or day to day activities.  And the great part about the Gripad weightlifting gloves are that they can be used in a variety of activities:  Dumbbell training, spinning, bench press exercises, rowing, back exercises, kettlebell exercises, biceps, triceps, CrossFit training, and so much more.

Try a pair today – It will allow you to get fit, save your hands, and participate in a true variety of activities meant to carve your body out of stone!

Why Weightlifting Matters for Women..?

According to the National Center for Health Statistics, approximately 21 percent of women engage in weight training during their workouts.   This is a low total for women, and it is surprising, because of the real health benefits that come from an added strength training regimen.  Here are three reasons a strength training course of exercise may be just what the doctor ordered…

Fights osteoporosis – One in five women in the U.S. suffers from osteoporosis, which is a thinning of bone tissue and loss of bone density over the years.  Weightlifting can effectively help to strengthen and maintain strong bone structure in women, thus lowering the risk of the disease or helping to ameliorate the symptoms if osteoporosis is already present.   Younger women – in their teens or early to late 20’s – can lift weights and participate in strength training in order to slow or prevent the disease.  And older women can work through a strength training program in order to halt the losses in bone density that will  occur naturally with age.

Fat loss – As is the same with men, muscle burns more energy than fat does…  A strength training program added on top of a cardiovascular one will allow the user to burn more calories throughout the day – Not just during the workout.  This, along with proper diet, will slim down the figure and tone the body to create a new you.  This can help to reshape your body, boost your confidence, and make you feel better about yourself.

Increases strength and decreases risk of injury – Weightlifting confers a whole heap of benefits to the female user…  It increases stamina, improves energy levels, helps with balance and flexibility, and helps to improve the joints.  In older women, strength training can even help to reduce pain in those suffering from arthritis and can even help to control blood glucose levels in diabetes patients.

For those 21 percent of women using a strength training regimen, keep doing what you’re doing.  And for those who aren’t, take a look at the health benefits above… It might just be time for you to start.

Why Women Need to Use Workout Gloves

GRIPAD offers both men and women’s workout gloves for the casual gym attendee to the fitness guru looking to add a few more pounds of muscle to their already stacked frame.  And just like men, women need to protect their hands and body while working out.  So here are three reasons women need GRIPAD gym grips just as much as men do…

Allow you to lift heavier weights and do more reps – GRIPAD women’s weight lifting gloves allow the user a firmer grip and a lessening of pressure on the wrists due to the padded nature of the glove.  Women who use gloves can work out longer, do more reps without feeling tired, and can generally lift more weight by comparison.  When the workout is done and the results are showing, it will be nice to still have the feminine, untouched hands from before you ever picked up a dumbbell.  With GRIPAD lifting grips, this is not only a possibility – It’s a reality.

The GRIPAD gloves can be used in activities other than weightlifting – Weightlifting gloves aren’t necessarily just for weightlifting.  They can be used for elliptical work, Pilates, rowing, yoga, spinning, and much, much more.  And with other gloves – such as those made of leather – you can’t wash them due to shrinkage, leaving a smell and odor that doesn’t come off after your workout.   With the GRIPAD gloves, they effectively wick away sweat and keep moisture away from your hand.  They are much better than leather – Not only for weightlifting exercises, but for cardiovascular work as well.

Protect your hands from forming calluses – The weights at the gym can be taxing on anyone’s hands.  With the chrome and iron dumbbells available at many gyms – as well as the ridged weight bars for the bench press and any number of other exercises – the same thing that helps you get a grip will also cut into your hands and cause irritation to the skin.  Women’s hands are usually more susceptible to sore hands, blisters, and calluses than their male counterparts.  With one million nerve bundles in your hand – and after one round with the GRIPAD gym grips shielding you from pain and discomfort – you might never go back to bare-handed weight lifting again.

PINK Gripads to support The Breast Cancer Foudation research!

Gripad USA in collaboration with CharityUSA.com, LLC and The Breast Cancer Site is donating 10% of the Pink Gripads’ revenues to support the cause!!

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Attention Ladies!! -- If you would like to support the continuous research of The Breast Cancer Foundation, make sure to purchase your PINK Gripads today! -- Gripad USA Ltd is donating 10% of the PINK Gripads' revenues to support the cause! --- The PINK Gripads is our latest version of the unique pads, made especially for women who typically have smaller hands. So there you go - now you can train towards a better health knowing you are supporting a fantastic cause!